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Adam Gopnik Quotes

When handsome men or beautiful women take up the work of the intellect, it impresses us because we know they could have chosen other paths to being impressive; that they chose the path of the mind suggests that there is on it something more worthwhile than a circuitous route to the good things that the good-looking get just by showing up Picture Quote #1

Drawing need not be the bones of art, but skill must always be the skeleton of accomplishment Picture Quote #1

The French believe that all errors are distant, someone else’s fault. Americans believe that there is no distance, no difference, and therefore that there are no errors, that any troubles are simple misunderstandings, consequent on your not yet having spoken English loudly enough Picture Quote #1

Leafing through Forbes or Fortune [magazine]s is like reading the operating manual of a strangely sanctimonious pirate ship Picture Quote #1

The coffee shop is a great New York institution, but it has terrible coffee. And the more traditional coffee shops are trying to catch up with more sophisticated coffee drinkers Picture Quote #1

If you’re being attacked from all sides, it’s possible you’re doing something right; it’s also possible that you are doing everything wrong Picture Quote #1

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You can’t have a decent food culture without a decent coffee culture: the two things grow up together Picture Quote #1

I still think the best classic meal in New York is a coffee-shop breakfast - you sort of can’t skip it Picture Quote #1

Of all the unexpected things in contemporary literature, this is among the oddest: that kids have an inordinate appetite for very long, very tricky, very strange books about places that don’t exist Picture Quote #1

Writing is the process of finding something to distract you from writing, and of all the helpful distractions - adultery, alcohol and acedia, all of which aided our writing fathers - none can equal the Internet Picture Quote #1

There are as many attitudes to cooking as there are people cooking, of course, but I do think that cooking guys tend - I am a guilty party here - to take, or get, undue credit for domestic virtue, when in truth cooking is the most painless and, in its ways, ostentatious of the domestic chores Picture Quote #1

We breathe in our first language, and swim in our second Picture Quote #1

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Big writers become a kind of shared climate Picture Quote #1

Dinner with water is dinner for prisoners Picture Quote #1

Music is a current of hard choices made to seem easy by the mind Picture Quote #1

What drives innovation is abundance and ease, not the pressure of scarcity Picture Quote #1

Nothing in a graduate degree in art history prepares you for the eloquence of the eraser Picture Quote #1

Good editorial writing has less to do with winning an argument, since the other side is mostly not listening, than with telling the guys on your side how they ought to sound when they’re arguing Picture Quote #1

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Drawing is one of those things which sit on the uneasy bending line between instinct and instruction, where seeming perversity eventually trumps pleasure as the card players and the kibitzers interact and new thrills are sought Picture Quote #1

The future will be like the past, in the sense that, no matter how amazing or technologically advanced a society becomes, the basic human rhythm of petty malevolence, sordid moneygrubbing, and official violence, illuminated by occasional bursts of loyalty or desire or tenderness, will go on Picture Quote #1

Wit and puns aren’t just decor in the mind; they’re essential signs that the mind knows it’s on, recognizes its own software, can spot the bugs in its own program Picture Quote #1

After all, spinning is its own reward. There wouldn’t be carousels if it weren’t so Picture Quote #1

Love, like light, is a thing that is enacted better than defined: we know it afterward by the traces it leaves on paper Picture Quote #1

The loneliness of the expatriate is of an odd and complicated kind, for it is inseparable from the feeling of being free, of having escaped Picture Quote #1

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The special virtue of freedom is not that it makes you richer and more powerful but that it gives you more time to understand what it means to be alive Picture Quote #1

Of all the unexpected things in contemporary literature, this is among the oddest: that kids have an inordinate appetite for very long, very tricky, very strange books about places that don’t exist Picture Quote #1

There are two kinds of travelers. There is the kind who goes to see what there is to see, and the kind who has an image in his head and goes out to accomplish it. The first visitor has an easier time, but I think the second visitor sees more Picture Quote #1

Writing well isn’t just a question of winsome expression, but of having found something big and true to say and having found the right words to say it in, of having seen something large and having found the right words to say it small, small enough to enter an individual mind so that the strong ideas of what the words are saying sound like sweet reason Picture Quote #1

Art without accomplishment becomes a form of faith, sustained more by the intensity of its common practice than by the pleasure it gives to its adherents in private Picture Quote #1

Protein was the most valued ingredient 250 years ago: It was the rarest thing. Now the rarest thing we have is time: time to cook and time to eat Picture Quote #1

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When handsome men or beautiful women take up the work of the intellect, it impresses us because we know they could have chosen other paths to being impressive; that they chose the path of the mind suggests that there is on it something more worthwhile than a circuitous route to the good things that the good-looking get just by showing up. (Adam Gopnik Quotes) Drawing need not be the bones of art, but skill must always be the skeleton of accomplishment (Adam Gopnik Quotes) The French believe that all errors are distant, someone else’s fault. Americans believe that there is no distance, no difference, and therefore that there are no errors, that any troubles are simple misunderstandings, consequent on your not yet having spoken English loudly enough (Adam Gopnik Quotes) Leafing through Forbes or Fortune [magazine]s is like reading the operating manual of a strangely sanctimonious pirate ship (Adam Gopnik Quotes) The coffee shop is a great New York institution, but it has terrible coffee. And the more traditional coffee shops are trying to catch up with more sophisticated coffee drinkers (Adam Gopnik Quotes) If you’re being attacked from all sides, it’s possible you’re doing something right; it’s also possible that you are doing everything wrong. (Adam Gopnik Quotes) You can’t have a decent food culture without a decent coffee culture: the two things grow up together. (Adam Gopnik Quotes) I still think the best classic meal in New York is a coffee-shop breakfast - you sort of can’t skip it. (Adam Gopnik Quotes) Of all the unexpected things in contemporary literature, this is among the oddest: that kids have an inordinate appetite for very long, very tricky, very strange books about places that don’t exist. (Adam Gopnik Quotes) Writing is the process of finding something to distract you from writing, and of all the helpful distractions - adultery, alcohol and acedia, all of which aided our writing fathers - none can equal the Internet. (Adam Gopnik Quotes) There are as many attitudes to cooking as there are people cooking, of course, but I do think that cooking guys tend - I am a guilty party here - to take, or get, undue credit for domestic virtue, when in truth cooking is the most painless and, in its ways, ostentatious of the domestic chores. (Adam Gopnik Quotes) We breathe in our first language, and swim in our second (Adam Gopnik Quotes) Big writers become a kind of shared climate (Adam Gopnik Quotes) Dinner with water is dinner for prisoners (Adam Gopnik Quotes) Music is a current of hard choices made to seem easy by the mind (Adam Gopnik Quotes) What drives innovation is abundance and ease, not the pressure of scarcity (Adam Gopnik Quotes) Nothing in a graduate degree in art history prepares you for the eloquence of the eraser (Adam Gopnik Quotes) Good editorial writing has less to do with winning an argument, since the other side is mostly not listening, than with telling the guys on your side how they ought to sound when they’re arguing (Adam Gopnik Quotes) Drawing is one of those things which sit on the uneasy bending line between instinct and instruction, where seeming perversity eventually trumps pleasure as the card players and the kibitzers interact and new thrills are sought (Adam Gopnik Quotes) The future will be like the past, in the sense that, no matter how amazing or technologically advanced a society becomes, the basic human rhythm of petty malevolence, sordid moneygrubbing, and official violence, illuminated by occasional bursts of loyalty or desire or tenderness, will go on (Adam Gopnik Quotes) Wit and puns aren’t just decor in the mind; they’re essential signs that the mind knows it’s on, recognizes its own software, can spot the bugs in its own program (Adam Gopnik Quotes) After all, spinning is its own reward. There wouldn’t be carousels if it weren’t so (Adam Gopnik Quotes) Love, like light, is a thing that is enacted better than defined: we know it afterward by the traces it leaves on paper (Adam Gopnik Quotes) The loneliness of the expatriate is of an odd and complicated kind, for it is inseparable from the feeling of being free, of having escaped (Adam Gopnik Quotes) The special virtue of freedom is not that it makes you richer and more powerful but that it gives you more time to understand what it means to be alive (Adam Gopnik Quotes) Of all the unexpected things in contemporary literature, this is among the oddest: that kids have an inordinate appetite for very long, very tricky, very strange books about places that don’t exist (Adam Gopnik Quotes) There are two kinds of travelers. There is the kind who goes to see what there is to see, and the kind who has an image in his head and goes out to accomplish it. The first visitor has an easier time, but I think the second visitor sees more (Adam Gopnik Quotes) Writing well isn’t just a question of winsome expression, but of having found something big and true to say and having found the right words to say it in, of having seen something large and having found the right words to say it small, small enough to enter an individual mind so that the strong ideas of what the words are saying sound like sweet reason (Adam Gopnik Quotes) Art without accomplishment becomes a form of faith, sustained more by the intensity of its common practice than by the pleasure it gives to its adherents in private (Adam Gopnik Quotes) Protein was the most valued ingredient 250 years ago: It was the rarest thing. Now the rarest thing we have is time: time to cook and time to eat (Adam Gopnik Quotes)

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